hun

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Noun 2 Breton 2.1 Noun 3 Danish 3.1 Noun 3.1.1 Inflection 3.2 Pronoun 4 Dutch 4.1 Pronunciation 4.2 Pronoun 4.2.1 Usage notes 4.2.2 Related terms 5 Hungarian 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Adjective 5.3 Conjunction 5.4 Noun 5.4.1 Declension 6 Korean 6.1 Noun 6.1.1 Usage notes 6.1.2 Antonyms 6.1.3 Related terms 7 Malay 7.1 Noun 8 Mandarin 8.1 Pinyin syllable 8.1.1 Usage notes 9 Norwegian 9.1 Pronoun 10 Tetum 10.1 Noun

[edit] English

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hun (uncountable)

1. (slang) Affectionate abbreviation of honey.
2. A grey partridge.

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[edit] Breton

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hun

1. Sleep

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[edit] Danish

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hun c. (singular definite hunnen, plural indefinite hunner)

1. female, she
2. hen (female bird)

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[edit] Pronoun

hun (accussative and dative hende, genitive hendes)

1. (personal) she

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[edit] Dutch

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hun (personal)

1. The dative case of the third-person plural personal pronoun: them, to them.
2. (proscribed) The accusative case of the third-person plural personal pronoun: them.
3. (proscribed, dialectical) The nominative case of the third-person plural personal pronoun: they.

hun (dependent possessive) (independent possessive hunne)

1. The third-person plural possessive pronoun: their.

[edit] Usage notes

The artificially created distinction between hen (for the accusative) and hun was invented by the seventeenth century scholar Christiaen van Heule, to make Dutch look more like Latin. In practice, many speakers have trouble remembering when to use the one or the other, since this distinction is not made in any other person. Thus it is common to hear sentences like:

• Hij heeft hun verraden. (“He has betrayed them.”)
• Ze zijn met hun uitgegaan. (“They have gone out with them.”)

The inverse is also common:

• Ik heb het hen gegeven. (“I have given it to them.”)

In an attempt to circumvent this problem, the nominative case can be used for both:

• Hij heeft ze verraden.
• Ze zijn met ze uitgegaan.
• Ik heb het ze gegeven.

The use of hun for the nominative case, however, is more locally restrained and still widely considered incorrect, mainly in written Dutch.

For more information, see the article in the Dutch Wikipedia.

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• zij, ze
• hen

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[edit] Hungarian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈhun/

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hun (not comparable)

1. of or pertaining to Huns

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hun

1. (regional) where (regional variant of hol)

[edit] Noun

hun (plural hunok)

1. A Hun

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declension of hun singular plural nominative hun hunok accusative hunt hunokat dative hunnak hunoknak instrumental hunnal hunokkal causal-final hunért hunokért translative hunná hunokká terminative hunig hunokig essive-formal hunként hunokként essive-modal - - inessive hunban hunokban superessive hunon hunokon adessive hunnál hunoknál illative hunba hunokba sublative hunra hunokra allative hunhoz hunokhoz elative hunból hunokból delative hunról hunokról ablative huntól hunoktól

possessives of hun possessor singular possession plural possession 1st person sing. hunom hunjaim 2nd person sing. hunod hunjaid 3rd person sing. hunja hunjai 1st person plural hununk hunjaink 2nd person plural hunotok hunjaitok 3rd person plural hunjuk hunjaik

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[edit] Korean

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hun (, hangeul 훈, hanja 訓)

1. Teaching, instruction, guidance.
2. The semantic part of the eumhun pairs, which explicates a hanja or Han ideogram or translates it into an easier or native Korean term. Note the delicate difference from the Japanese counterpart, kun pairing with on. The other, phonetic part, eum, is indeed a corrupt or localized version of the actual reading of a Chinese word.

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• The common order is hun and eum (in contrast to eumhun), e.g., "하늘 텬" ("haneul tyeon", i.e., "sky tyeon") for 天.
• The Chinese reading tyeon, corrupted in itself and isolated from Chinese contexts, is marked by great ambiguity. Thus, the hun often serves as a qualifier.

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• eum

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• eumhun

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[edit] Malay

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hun

1. A unit of weight equal to one hundredth of a tahil.

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[edit] Mandarin

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hun

1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of four tones, hūn, hún, hǔn or hùn.

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English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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[edit] Norwegian

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hun

1. she

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[edit] Tetum

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hun

1. A bottom or base
2. A beginning
3. An origin